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“Grief suffocated. Grief paralyzed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”

YOO FUCK LETTY??

How can such sickening topics be written so beautifully pls 😭

“It was so obvious now that he was not, and never could be, a person in his father’s eyes. No, personhood demanded the blood purity of a European man […].”

I don’t want this book to end, my god

‘English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon test without borrowed goods.’

Words don’t exist in translation to each other.

“Do we take words as our unit of translation, or do we subordinate accuracy of individual words to the overall spirit of the text?”